{"product_id":"behind-the-beautiful-forevers-life-death-and-hope-in-a-mumbai-undercity-katherine-boo","title":"Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo","description":"\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBehind the Beautiful Forevers, \u003c\/i\u003ebased on years of uncompromising reporting,\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecarries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Winner of the National Book Award | The PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award | The Los Angeles Times Book Prize | The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award | The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New Yorker • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • The Boston Globe • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\/The Daily Beast\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • Foreign Policy • The Seattle Times • The Nation • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Denver Post • \u003c\/i\u003eMinneapolis\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Star Tribune • \u003c\/i\u003eSalon\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • The Plain Dealer • The Week • Kansas City Star • \u003c\/i\u003eSlate\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “A book of extraordinary intelligence [and] humanity . . . beyond groundbreaking.”\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Junot Díaz, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Reported like Watergate, written like \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGreat Expectations, \u003c\/i\u003eand handily the best international nonfiction in years.”\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“This book is both a tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Judges’ Citation for the PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “[A] landmark book.”\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “A triumph of a book.”\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Amartya Sen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.”\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Adrian Nicole LeBlanc\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “[A] stunning piece of narrative nonfiction . . . [Katherine] Boo’s prose is electric.”\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—O: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Inspiring, and irresistible . . . Boo’s extraordinary achievement is twofold. She shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—People\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Ex Libris Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44099125510371,"sku":"EXL1418","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5675\/7951\/files\/36687335.jpg?v=1698850133","url":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismichigan.com\/products\/behind-the-beautiful-forevers-life-death-and-hope-in-a-mumbai-undercity-katherine-boo","provider":"Ex Libris Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}